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Cass Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Cass Township is one of the twenty-five townships of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,811 people in the township. GeographyLocated on the northern edge of the county, it borders the following townships:
A small part of the village of Dresden is located in central Cass Township. Furthermore, two unincorporated communities lie in the township: Adams Mills in the northeast, and Trinway in the north. Name and historyStatewide, other Cass Townships are located in Hancock and Richland counties. The township is named for Major Jonathan Cass, who lived between Trinway and Adams Mills.[4] A People DividedAt a special election, held 1 Apr 1852, it was voted by the tax-payers of Jefferson Township, to issue to the Steubenville & Indiana Railway Company, township bonds to the amount of $100,000, to aid in the construction of this road. These bonds were to bear seven percent interest payable semi-annually, on the first day of January and July, and to mature 1 Jan 1862. This first issue of bonds was soon taken up and burned by the Township Trustees, because the County Auditor refused to register and officially sign them. On 22 Jul 1852 the Trustees re-issued these bonds, as set forth in the extract of the official record, given below:
Out of the issue of these bonds grew the trouble which, in October, 1853, resulted in the division of the township. At the special election, held to vote on the issue, or non-issue of these bonds, three hundred and forty were cast in favor of having them issued, and only one hundred and fourteen against the measure. The voters of the village of Dresden voted almost to a man in favor of the scheme, while most of the voters against it were farmers throughout the township. The original idea, which predominated among the farmers, was that they would have the township divided, and thus escape paying any portion of the bonds. Although the succeeded in their efforts to be cut off from Dresden, the law decided that that act did not release them from paying their portion of the bonds as they became due. Before these bonds were finally all paid, they cost the taxpayers of the two townships—Cass, the new one formed, and Jefferson—about $200,000.[5] A New Township is CreatedOn Tuesday, 6 Sep 1853, the Commissioners resumed the consideration of the matter relating to the erection of a new township out of the territory comprising Jefferson township, and ordered that a new township shall be erected out of said territory, to be known by the name of Cass township, and to contain territory agreeably to the petition in relation to the same; which petition included the whole of Jefferson township, excepting the district included in the following boundaries, viz...
Commission's Journal, 1853, the 28th and 29th pages, although the pages are not numbered.[5]
GovernmentThe township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer,[6] who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. References
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